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Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic and a staunch opponent of the proposed E.U. constitution, was in the U.S. last week peddling his book On the Road to Democracy: The Czech Republic from Communism to Free Society. Before meeting with President George W. Bush at the White House, he stopped by TIME's Washington bureau for a chat...
...would have been hard not to know about it, as the move has been chewed over at length since it was first mooted last October. The maneuver, an attempt to staunch the flood of illegals that critics blame for a rise in violent crime and other social ills, was delayed until the end of January and again until March 1 after last-minute negotiations with Indonesia, where most of the illegal workers are from. Anyone unlawful found in Malaysia can now be fined, imprisoned or even beaten...
...tens of thousands of demonstrators brought Paris, Marseilles and other city centers to a standstill. Snap Judgement DENMARK Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called early parliamentary elections for Feb. 8, nine months ahead of the deadline. Opinion polls suggest that Rasmussen's center-right alliance, which has been a staunch ally of the U.S-led war in Iraq, will be returned to power. Glimmer of Hope MIDDLE EAST Palestinian police began patrolling the border between Gaza and Israel after new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security services to stop rocket attacks on Israel. Israeli officials approved the deployment when...
...face, but in November, Parliament practically begged him to stay in fatigues by passing a bill allowing him to hold two offices?a tricky constitutional maneuver in Pakistan. Plenty of Pakistanis agree that Musharraf might be necessary at a time of domestic extremism and ongoing peace talks with India. (Staunch ally Washington certainly does.) "Pakistan has never seen the successful transfer of power from one civilian government to another," says Dr. Rifaat Hussain, a professor at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "If Musharraf can guide the government to its first completed term in 2007, it will be a significant...
...most politically outspoken American actors working today is Sean Penn. His past as Hollywood’s bad boy has been eclipsed in recent years by his staunch political beliefs and critiques of those he believes to be harming America. His most recent battle of words was the aforementioned exchange with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the “brains” behind Team America: World Police. That film, which features a troupe of puppets fighting world terrorism takes a number of shots at liberal, outspoken actors like Matt Damon...